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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Bangdb vs. Citus vs. Dgraph

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Websitealtibase.comaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchbangdb.comwww.citusdata.comdgraph.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.bangdb.comdocs.citusdata.comdgraph.io/­docs
DeveloperAltibaseAmazonSachin Sinha, BangDBDgraph Labs, Inc.
Initial release19992012201220102016
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023BangDB 2.0, October 20218.1, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C, C++CGo
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noSQL like support with command line toolyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnonouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.no
Triggersyesnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Source-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsSynchronous replication via Raft
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes, run db with in-memory only modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentication via encrypted signaturesyes (enterprise version only)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoPlanned for future releases

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